Estelle Parsons

She also played the part of Roseanne's mother Beverly, in the sitcom Roseanne. In her later years she appeared in supporting roles in television before her death from pneumonia in Locust Valley, New York. She also received a BAFTA Award nomination for her role in Watermelon Man (1970), and appeared in I Never Sang for My Father (1971), For Pete's Sake (1975), Dick Tracy (1992) and Boys on the Side (1995). Still an outsider in Hollywood, Revere was not considered for the film version which was played by Wendy Hiller. Her film career includes an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), and a nomination for Rachel, Rachel (1968). With her husband, the playwright and director Samuel Rosen, Revere moved to New York where the couple ran an acting school, and Revere returned to Broadway. She won a Tony Award in 1961 for her role in Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic. She has received Tony Award nominations for her work in The Seven Descents of Myrtle (1968), And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little (1971), Miss Margarida's Way (1978) and Mornings at Seven (2002). For the rest of her life she maintained that the unsigned copy of a Communist Party registration card that was used as evidence of her party membership was a fake.

Moving to New York, she worked as a writer, producer and commentator for The Today Show. Called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, Revere pled the Fifth Amendment and her Hollywood career was ruined. Parsons originally studied law, and then worked as a singer with a band before settling on an acting career in the early 1950's. Her last role of note was as the mother of Montgomery Clift in A Place in the Sun (1951), before her career was destroyed by the McCarthy witchhunts. Estelle Parsons (born November 20, 1927 in Marblehead, Massachusetts) is an American theater, film and television actress. She received Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nominations for three motherly roles during the 1940s - as the mother of Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette (1943), Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet (1944) for which she won the award, and Gregory Peck in Gentleman's Agreement (1947). She made her film debut in the 1934 film version of the latter, and she quickly established herself as a character actress, specialising in worldly wise but frequently sharp tongued supporting roles.

She made her Broadway acting debut in 1931 in The Great Barrington and followed this success with a role in Double Door. Born in New York, New York Revere was a direct descendant of American Revolution figure Paul Revere. Anne Revere (June 25, 1903 – December 18, 1990) was an American film actress.